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NGC6146
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 16:25:10.2
Declination: +40:53:33
Constellation: HER
Visual Magnitude: 12.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: cF, vS, R, bM
Sub-type: E2
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 6146. See NGC 6138 and NGC 6147.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 6146
18" (7/29/08): moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 3:2 WSW-ENE, 0.9'x0.6', well concentrated with a very small bright core, bright stellar nucleus. Two mag 13/14 stars 1.2' and 2' E. In a line with NGC 6147 2.3' NNW and NGC 6145 3.6' NNW in AGC 2197.
17.5" (7/24/95): moderately bright, fairly small, 1.0' diameter, slightly elongated E-W. Broad concentration with a fairly high surface brightness core, stellar nucleus. A mag 13 star is 1.2' E of center. Brightest of a collinear trio with NGC 6145 3.6' NNW and NGC 6147 2' NNW in AGC 2197.
17.5" (7/5/86): fairly faint, almost round, bright core, stellar nucleus. Forms a pair with NGC 6145 3.5' NW.
13.1" (8/5/83): fairly faint, moderately large. Forms a pair with NGC 6145.